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Call for Papers
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ANGELAKI
journal of the theoretical humanities
Angelaki Dossier
G L I S S E M E N T
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for 4.3 (1999) and/or 5.3 (2000) general issues
About ANGELAKI Dossiers and this call
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Angelaki Dossiers are a feature idea for general (nontheme)
issues of _Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities_.
The first dossier, a section of seven pieces of work under
the title 'Together,' appeared in _Angelaki_ 3.3 (December 1998).
The body of this call (below) is made up of three pieces of text:
a definition of the French word 'glissement,' a quotation from
Samuel Beckett's _Watt_, and a third piece of original writing
by the editor responsible.
This call is not intended to function as a thematic proposal, but
as a provocation to writing. Material may be analytical and
expository, or experimental and expressive. If somebody submits
a scholarly essay on Beckett in connection with the below, this
would be welcomed, as would an essay examining Lacan's use of
'glissement' or a piece on Robbe-Grillet's _Glissements
progressifs du plaisir_. But what we seek is writing which
explores or responds to the kinds of effects or processes
evoked below, in any literature or area of experience -- work
that will fit under the rubric of the word 'glissement' in a
journal of the theoretical humanities.
Form is open. Coauthored work is welcomed. Contributions may
start at 500 words. The deadline for submissions and other
submission information can be found at the end of this post.
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Contributions are sought for...
G L I S S E M E N T
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Edited by Gerard Greenway
1. *glissement* sliding; gliding; glide; *~ de sense*
shift in meaning; *~ de terraine* landslide, landslip.
_Collins Robert_
2. Gliss--iss--iss--STOP! ... There is a great alp of
sand, one hundred metres high, between the pines and
the ocean, and ... there in the warm moonless night,
when no one is looking, no one listening, in tiny
packets of two or three millions the grains slip, all
together, a little slip of one or two lines maybe, and
then stop, all together, not one missing, and that is
all ... It was a slip like that I felt ... millions of
little things moving all together out of their old
place, into a new one near by, and furtively, as
though it were forbidden. And I have little doubt that
I was the only living person to discover them. To
conclude from this that the incident was internal
would, I think, be rash. For my -- how shall I say? --
my personal system was so distended at the period of
which I speak that the distinction between what was
inside it and what was outside it was not at all easy
to draw. Everything that happened happened inside it,
and at the same time everything that happened happened
outside it.
Samuel Beckett, _Watt_
3. As in a hopper or silo, as in a heap or dune; a
decompaction, or fluxion, a local fluxion of
particulate matter, granular matter, soft condensed
matter. A creep, a flow, a local fluidisation. A
trickle, of grains or granules, loose from the mass.
A subsidence, a resettlement of the terrain, a shift
in a load-bearing structure. Perhaps outwardly nothing
appears to have changed. But the architecture, the
lattice, has suffered a shift or shock; a metastasis,
a paramorphic change.
An event, a microevent that reorients the matrix, that
results in a global deformation or transition. An
addition that reconfigures the set. It reconfigures.
A swerve, a veering, within the manifold. A slippage.
A vertiginous slippage, an inflation effect. The whole
system reorients, or desires to.
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Submission Deadline
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Final material for peer review by May 31, 1999.
_Angelaki_ is a peer reviewed journal. Conventional scholarly
submissions for 'Glissement' will be reviewed in the normal way;
all material will be read by at least two readers in addition to
the dossier editor.
Submission Details
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People considering a submission are welcome to contact the editor
beforehand to discuss their idea or to request further information.
All submissions should be accompanied be a brief biographical
note and marked 'Glissement.'
If you wish to e-mail material, please contact the editor first
and e-mail an abstract of your piece.
E-mail: greenway@angelaki.demon.co.uk
Hard copy should be sent in triplicate (double-spaced, paginated)
to:
Gerard Greenway
(Glissement)
Angelaki
44 Abbey Road
Oxford OX2 0AE
United Kingdom
About ANGELAKI
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_Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities_ is
a print journal published three times a year by Carfax
Publishing Limited. The journal publishes two theme
issues and one general issue per volume. ISSN: 0969-725X.
_Angelaki_ was selected Best New Journal in the 1996
Council of Editors of Learned Journals Awards.
For further details of the journal and contents
listings please visit:
http://www.carfax.co.uk/ang-ad.htm
'Since its inception in 1993, the journal _Angelaki_ has
established itself as a leading forum of theoretical reflection,
providing a practical refutation of all those who would celebrate
"the end of theory." Whether it is focused on thematic issues of
the most varied nature, introducing thinkers to English-language
readers, or treating a variety of problems in open issues,
_Angelaki_ challenges the complacency of the self-evident.
Required reading for the next millennium.'
Samuel Weber
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